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Anthony Burns : The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
by Hamilton, Virginia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394881850
- ISBN 13
- 9780394881850
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Near Fine condition in Very Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($11.95). A bright, shiny, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Bound in the original blue boards, with a tan cloth spine lettered in shiny silver. First printing, with complete number row (13579 10 8642) on the copyright page. Novelized version of the true story of a slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, but whose former owner then reclaimed him by invoking the controversial Fugitive Slave Act. Winner of the 1988 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Dillon, Leo and Diane (jacket art). 8vo. xiii, 194pp.
Synopsis
Virginia Hamilton's many awards include the Newbery Medal and National Book Award for M.C. Higgins the Great ; the Coretta Scott King Medal for The People Could Fly ; and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for the body of her work.
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- Bookseller
- About Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014350
- Title
- Anthony Burns : The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
- Author
- Hamilton, Virginia
- Illustrator
- Dillon, Leo and Diane (jacket art)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394881850
- ISBN 13
- 9780394881850
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Black Studies; Children's Books / Young Adult Literature;
- Size
- 8vo. xiii, 194pp
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